I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet.

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.